Saturday, February 26, 2011

Soup's Ready -- Come See What I Made!!!

Each beader was paired up with another jewelry designer and tasked with sending the following:

~ A focal~ A special clasp (not just a lobster claw)~ Some coordinating spacers or beads

Using the focal and the clasp was mandatory, but we could use anything from our own stash to round out the rest, and choose to use the coordinating beads or not.

Here's what I started with -- a fabulous beaded focal plus some natural beads including red hematite; apple jaspar and leopard jaspar in addition to some lovely amber, black and brown crystal beads and some seed beads too! My partner Karen Williams is THE Bomb :-)

And Here's what I made!

My partner was Karen Williams from http://www.baublicious.blogspot.com/ who really sent me the challenge of a lifetime! I'm not used to working with earthy neutral tones or small beads but after receiving my first of two generous packages I have to admit I'm a convert.

I wish the photos did the finished pieces justice but at least you can see the beautiful seed-bead focal Karen slaved over and the wonderful clasp that has "Life is Good" iimprinted on it. Making jewelry is a challenge for me period but when you have beautiful components such as the ones I was given to use it certainly inspires me to push myself and make something fabulous!! So here's my humble offering and below you can see what everyone else made......be sure to check out Karen's link to see what she made from the beads I sent her!!

What beautiful pieces you made!! My partner challenged me with earth tones, too, and it was a lot of fun stretching and trying something new. Your necklace perfectly shows off the beaded pendant -- great work!